Trump Responds To #FakeMelania Conspiracy Theory

President Donald Trump took to Twitter Wednesday to set the record straight after people on the Internet decided photos of first lady Melania Trump looked like a body double during their trip to Alabama March 8.

“The Fake News photoshopped pictures of Melania, then propelled conspiracy theories that it’s actually not her by my side in Alabama and other places,” Trump wrote on Twitter Wednesday. “They are only getting more deranged with time!”

“GUYS THAT IS NOT MELANIA,” Twitter user @redpainter1 wrote to caption photos of the president and first lady on March 8.

“I previously thought the #fakeMelania thing was bullshit but I actually don’t think that’s her. lol,” Twitter user @OGBotterz wrote in reference to a linked video of the president and first lady descending an airplane March 8.

The first lady body double theory traces all the way back to the early days of Trump’s presidency in 2017, according to People. Twitter user @JoeVargas tweeted a video of the first lady wearing oversized sunglasses and standing next to the president Oct. 18, 2017.

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“This is not Melania. To think they would go this far [and] try [and] make us think its her on TV is mind blowing. Makes me wonder what else is a lie,” he wrote.

The White House first responded to the controversy in 2017.

“”Once again, we find ourselves consumed with a ridiculous non-story when we could be talking about the work the first lady is doing on behalf of children, including the opioid crisis that is gripping our nation,” the first lady’s pres secretary Stephanie Grisham said in 2017 according to AL.com.

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